Constituency
238. Jamshedpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-JAMSHEDPUR
CPI 41.6%won by 5.7%INC 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 41.6% of the vote here (+41.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.4% of the vote between them, up from 57.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
36,191
Margin
2,074
5.73%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1KEDAR DASCommunist Party of India · CPI15,04541.6%
- 2SHIVA CHANDRIKA PRASADIndian National Congress · INC12,97135.8%
- 3ROBERT KHALKHO (ST)Jai Hind Party · JHP5,04813.9%
- 4DEBENDRA NATH DEBIndependent · IND1,4764.1%
- 5AWADESH KUMAR SINHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP8422.3%
- 6KAMESHWAR PRASAD SINGHCNPSPJP · CNPSPJP5791.6%
- 7SANGRAM BIRUA (ST)Independent · IND2300.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +46.2%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 41.6%
- INC share
- 40.5% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —